News from heaven
Subtitle: the Bakerton stories
By: Jennifer Haigh
Edition: First Harper Perennial ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780060889630
Subjects: Coal mines and mining; Fiction; City and town life; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Domestic fiction; American Short stories; Manners and customs
Description: In this collection of interconnected short stories, Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town rocked by decades of painful transition. From its heyday during two World Wars through its slow decline, Bakerton is a town that refuses to give up gracefully, binding--sometimes cruelly - succeeding generations to the place that made them.
Notes: Includes "P.S. Insights, Interviews & More" (30 p.).
Table of contents: title: Beast and bird --; title: Something sweet --; title: Broken star --; title: A place in the sun --; title: To the stars --; title: Thrift --; title: Favorite son -- The bottom of things --; title: What remains --; title: Desiderata.